Urgench wrote:Erastide wrote:Question for the regular WA forumites that have made their way here. If [violet]'s plan for an expanded WA is put into place, how would you react to having the "traditional" WA be a part of it? Sorta like a legislative branch? I am assuming here the C&C stuff would end up somewhere else in terms of rulesets. Because I do like the idea of bringing gameplayers (specifically those that govern regions and thereby have to be in the WA) more into WA matters, but I as you've said, I don't exactly see them jumping into writing proposals. If it hasn't happened by now, there's not going to be a grand revelation in thought.
Urgench has already resigned from the WA. I might put one of my puppets in it in the future, just to give me a reason to post on things I do find interesting, but essentially this "expanded" WA doesn't make sense to me and I wouldn't be able to play it in anything like the manner I enjoy. There isn't any actual relationship between Gameplayers and Regulars, except for one soliciting the approvals and votes of the other, and their play cannot be reconciled, in my opinion. Gameplay has nothing to offer the old WA in terms of an actual improvement to the way it works, and the gameplay functions of this new "expanded" WA would dwarf the older aspects of it. Gameplayers are in no way likely to be seduced by what will be an insignificant committee of legislators which deals with issues they don't recognise now and will have less reason to recognise in the future.
Hence the question.
The WA is made up of a wide variety of players. I believe [violet]'s goal is to get more of the WA players that are not part of the legislative process involved with the WA in some way. So if the "WA" had branches to it, and the traditional WA (ie writing/passing resolutions) could be a piece of that and keep all the current regs/rules, would that be more acceptable? Because I think some interesting things could be done with the WA, but I also think the legislation part has functioned quite well by itself.